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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone   😊 😞
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Subject: Trump's FEMA Left 2/3s of TX Calls Unanswered
Date: 07/11/25 7:59 PM
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Incompetence, thy name is Mad King Donald.

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers
and had laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended...

More than 120 people are dead and Mad King Donald has called for eliminating FEMA, an agency he has decimated and whose response and search-and-rescue teams he has now been slow to activate.

On Monday, July 7, FEMA fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent.

That sure sounds like an "F".

In MAGAland though, it's an A+ (unless Obama or Biden was in charge, then it's an "F").

nytimes.com - Fema missed calls texas floods
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